Were rivers removed?

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Were rivers removed?

by MCL » Post

I was flying around in a newly generated world (in Minetest Game) for about an hour and could find any rivers, were they removed?
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Re: Were rivers removed?

by TumeniNodes » Post

check your settings for mgV7. Rivers have not been removed, you may have simply changed a setting and did not realize or forgot
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Re: Were rivers removed?

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use "valleys".

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Re: Were rivers removed?

by Gael de Sailly » Post

Go in advanced settings at Server/Singleplayer → Mapgen → Advanced → Mapgen v7 → Mapgen v7 specific flags and add the tag ridges
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This can also be done in the minetest.conf file, where settings are stored, just change the value of mgv7_spflags the same way.
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Re: Were rivers removed?

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I meant actual rivers (the ones containing river water) not these "canyons" with water
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Re: Were rivers removed?

by GreenXenith » Post

migdyn wrote:not these "canyons" with water
Hate to break it to ya, those are the only rivers you get :)
migdyn wrote:I meant actual rivers (the ones containing river water)
River water ultimately serves no purpose at this point in time, unless it is used in the Valleys mapgen, but I dont think it is [edit]: apparently you want to use the Valleys mapgen. The more you know :)
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Re: Were rivers removed?

by v-rob » Post

You have to use the Valleys mapgen to have rivers with river water. Mapgen v7 only has the huge flat rivers.
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Re: Were rivers removed?

by paramat » Post

What v-rob wrote. Mgv7 has never had sloping rivers with "default:river_water".

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